Imagine a hippy drum circle, but instead of being retarted, it toally rocks. Then there are other sounds swirling around that, like effects driven vocals and loops over tweaked out synth riffs, and screaming chorus' from all 6 members of the band. Throw in a mosh-pit/pogo combination, and you've got Aa from Brooklyn, NY. These gentlemen are one of the most amazing live performers we have ever seen, and they really pump the crowd up into a heated frenzy. With 2 previous releases on Narnack, a couple of singles, a split 12", and an extensive resume of amazing shows, Aa is welcomed to Kill Shaman with bear hugs and cheak kisses.

>> Aa's website

See Also
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Press
"Propelled by three drummers (four counting John Atkinson, who flails his maracas like a chimp on crack), Aa consistently wows loft parties with a sonic battery of driving beats, ethereal electronics, and samples of sirens and elephant cries. There are lyrics in all that yelling, though we still can't tell what they say." -- New York Magazine (Top Five)

"Aa (BIG A little a) has a very swank one-sided LP out on Narnack. It has a very beautiful way of shifting its center in unexpected ways. The single side of music is a fat tableau of the kindsa sounds that young people should be making and enjoying in bistros from here to Kalamazoo. Here they club out bite-sized hunks of neo-no, new-wave-electro-murk, disco-noise readymades, French duck calls and a buncha other stuff. And it sounds quite pleasing!" -- Thurston Moore (of Sonic Youth) Arthur Magazine

"An art-punk party-starting re-invention of the hippie drum circle." -- Village Voice

"Heavily skewed pop, though the definition of pop must be stretched thin to apply. Art-core krunk?" -- Flavorpill

"An urban dance-noise nightmare!" -- CMJ Monthly

"Utilizing three drum kits and electronically treated moans and chants, Aa weave weird spells and conjure up eerie atmospheres. They are a very hot and wet handful of indescribability indeed." -- The Stranger (Seattle, WA)

"Call the Brooklyn-based quintet what they call their debut:Big A little a, wherein every member doubles as a drummer and manipulator of electronic components, all shouting or murmering amid their spacey clamor. After a few years of throwing hissy fits in barely legal loft spaces deep in industrial wastelands, playing places like Chicken Hut Loft and Happy Birthday Hideout on bills with TV on the Radio, Mindflayer, and Japanther, Aa grew up enough to get beyond the boroughs. They'll twitch and glitch enough to get the school dance sweaty." -- Seattle Weekly

"Unpredictable bombast. You'll never see the same Aa show twice!" -- Portland Mercury

"Post-apocalyptic tribal texturalists" -- TimeOut New York

"Art-rock, experimental electronica, whatever you call it the music of Aa is sure to challenge if not delight" -- AM New YorK